Source: treehugger.com
Published: December 19, 2012
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Everything in a healthy home should be non-toxic, from the building materials to the finishes. Think gingerbread. The other great thing is that gingerbread structures tend to be small and can be considered part of the tiny house movement. Because they sneak under the building code and planning guidelines, they have promoted an explosion of architectural creativity.
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Over at Architizer, they have just revealed the winner of the Pritzker for Gingerbread, their annual design competition. The winner was the late Oscar Niemeyer, or at least his National Congress Building. An icon of modernist design that also functions as a candy dish. See all of the short list at Architizer.
The history of the modern gingerbread movement has been covered in detail in TreeHugger over the years. Here’s a revisit of some of our peer-reviewed research and documentation: See the Source above.